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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Solvents

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Manufacturing Process Unit Exemption/RCRA: U.S. EPA Administrative Law Judge Addresses Applicability Question

A United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrative Law Judge Christine Donelian Coughlin (“ALJ”) interpreted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) term “manufacturing process unit” (“MPU”) in...more

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Hazardous Waste Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Sonoco Hickory, North Carolina, Consumer Packaging/Supply...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Sonoco Hickory, Inc. (“Sonoco“) entered into a May 19th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations. See Docket No....more

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Maine Hazardous Waste Rules Updated for Exempt Solvent-Contaminated Wipes

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The State of Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MEDEP) just amended its rules to formally include an exemption for “solvent-contaminated wipes,” putting to bed a long-standing question of how solvent-contaminated...more

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EPA Proposes Use Restrictions on TCE

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EPA is proposing significant use restrictions and recordkeeping requirements on those facilities using or distributing trichloroethylene (TCE), a widely used industrial solvent. The agency proposed two rules in a month’s time...more

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EPA's New Solvent Wiper Rule Wipes Out Maine's Policy

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For many years, both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have wrestled with the practical question of how solvent-contaminated wipes should be...more

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At Long Last . . . EPA Announces Rule on Industrial Solvent-Contaminated Wipes

On July 22, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it had finalized a rule revising the definition of solid waste to conditionally exclude solvent-contaminated wipes that are cleaned and reused,...more

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